Rich countries can afford to overpay for things..

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, ….

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequiti….

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen..

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can….

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have a….

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that….

Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is….

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go a….

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail..

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action..

Learn from your unhappy customers..

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else..

When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery st….

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism..

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of b….

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point..

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority..

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health..

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam..

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a….